He's talking about the DHS, but Cliff May may have an explanation for NASA:

When bureaucracies become sclerotic, they don’t go out of business. They simply fail to do the job they are expected to do. When caught in this position, they generally complain that they have been under-funded (“Give us more money and we’ll do better!”) Then they generally get rearranged, with complex new organizational charts and, often, new layers of bureaucratic management.

Not only NASA

When bureaucracies become sclerotic, they don’t go out of business. They simply fail to do the job they are expected to do. When caught in this position, they generally complain that they have been under-funded (“Give us more money and we’ll do better!”) Then they generally get rearranged, with complex new organizational charts and, often, new layers of bureaucratic management.

But a good part of our educational system as well. How many years has throwing money at education been the expected fix?

Is the problem old age or tapeworms?

Yes, I was going to say- this not only describes NASA, but our entire government.... Senate and Congress included.

It is said that Washington is an enclave surrounded on all four sides by reality.

But from time to time reality pours in and cleans out the system. How else do governments function for hundreds of years?

Bureaucratic mummification is a self-terminating process...eventually.